Posts Tagged ‘Alan Johnson’

Ben Riley-Smith’s report in the Telegraph on Monday about Labour MPs urging Alan Johnson to launch a leadership bid has really set the cat amongst the bacon sandwiches. My understanding is that John...
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Kids: don’t talk to strangers. There’s a risk you’ll end up being name-dropped by Ed Miliband in a conference speech. This year he quoted about a thousand people he’d met in supermarkets as pa...
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This is a photograph of Alan Johnson, winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize. You'll remember him as Home Secretary and, briefly and ingloriously, Ed Miliband...
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When it looked for a short while as though Labour might, after all, have the guts to get rid of Gordon Brown and replace him as leader, there was one name that genuinely troubled senior Tories. And it...
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I was so glad to see David Hasselhoff making an appearance the other day, offering to lend his support to the Big Society. I suppose in a sense you could say that Michael Knight from Knight Rider was ...
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I had thought that the arrival of David Cameron as PM had allowed us all to move on from the idea that biography is destiny, the notion that your parents' income and the school you attended are the so...
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In the minutes before and after Alan Johnson’s departure, I was one of many who suggested that his resignation would raise questions about Ed Miliband’s judgment. I was mostly – but not entirely...
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Don't believe the Jeremiahs. The Alan Johnson crisis is not a debacle for Ed Miliband. Johnson is a great politician, but he wasn't on top of the detail, and he wasn't up to the job. Whatever his pers...
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Suddenly the shape of the Labour team that will face the Tories in 2015 is a lot clearer. While no one anticipated Alan Johnson quitting the political stage quite so soon – and so suddenly ̵...
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It was the best kept political secret. Senior shadow cabinet members knew nothing until two minutes before the announcement that the shadow chancellor was to quit. The whole pack move appears to have ...
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